I Blog about creating Fine Art, using Colored Pencils and also Oil Paints. Working in the studio as well as "En Plein Air", (In the Open Air). Come in and join the fun!
My colored pencil work requires 20-25 layers of artist quality pencils. Trying to foster respect for artists who choose a nonstandard media is challenging. I hope this blog will show Colored Pencil deserves the respect from collectors and galleries as a fine art medium.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

New Painting Photo'd and ready for framing

Spring Thaw 16 x 20 Colored Pencil On Pastelboard

Now that the big Easter egg hunt for the grand daughters is over, dinner cooked (with too much ham left over) I was finally ready to get this newly finished painting photographed. Getting a true likeness of my painting via the camera and then Photoshop is always an ordeal for me since I'm now on my own for this task. (My son is off to bigger and better things.) A photo reference of melting icicles with the VA creek rushing by, prompted this painting. The attempt to capture the coldness of the ice yet the awakening of the moss and lichen growing on the rocks was my goal. Full of abstract shapes - this really had me checking my left brain at the door! It will go into a very nice Expresso /blackish frame that is 3.5 inches wide.

On other news, I have been assembling my newly purchased pastels for a trek into the PA Mountains for a plein aire outing. With my sole goal of finding a faster medium to get more accomplished with a saturation of color and the Plein air experience. No I'm not going to replace my beloved cps, but I hope to use the pastels to do more saturated studies for future works to be done in cp, along with the gained skills of working from life. And I really don't want the mess of pastels in my studio, outdoors the dust and mess will be easier to live with. Now I may go around an entire day with colored dust on myself for the world to see but my studio should still be clean. Okay, I know I'm a bit of a clean freak when it comes to art supplies, but I have to admit shopping for those pretty colored pastels had a rush that put me over the potential messes to come. The Terry Ludwig set of 60 Maggie Price came today and they look so good! I'll save the set up for my Plein air box/kit for a future article, that is after I figure out how to pack for just this one new media.............

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